Coleman revealed that Clingan hasn’t been the butt of any dressing-room barbs because of his blunder.

“There hasn’t been a lot of banter,” he said: “in fact they’ve all been a bit snappy this week.

"Perhaps it’s because I had a little pop at them, but that’s fine – I like that because it shows that they know we missed an opportunity to carry on our unbeaten run.

“The penalty had a big effect because the statistics suggest that Swansea don’t come back when they go behind.

"But as I said on the day, we didn’t lose because of Sammy’s miss we lost because our performance wasn’t good enough – we weren’t pulling up any trees before the penalty and we still had plenty of time after it.”